Politics
War In Ukraine
So here we are possibly facing WW3. Or maybe not. I will give a brief analysis of what I see going on in Ukraine and how it relates to the wider world. I will say [more…]
Ukraine
America
Fault-Lines in Thinking Exposed
Last month I wrote about the massive waste implicit in government-sponsored bureaucracy – at local and central levels. The craving for a sense of importance leads small-minded apparatchiks to seize power over others by controlling [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred And Thirty Four
Monday Good morning all, another week and the war in Ukraine continues with Bozzie still running around like a maniac. I saw Putin on TV yesterday and he looks different, has he put on weight? [more…]
Science
Ukraine’s Javelin, NLAW and TB-2
Javelin Javelin is an infrared (ie heat-seeking) guided anti-tank missile system. A previous generation of anti-tank missiles were wire-guided via a ‘semi-automatic command to line of sight’ (or SACLOS) system where the operator had to [more…]
America
Is this what is happening in Ukraine ?
One of Tucker Carlson’s guests last night (1st March) was retired Colonel Doug MacGregor, a former military advisor to the Donald and a man who wants to see the finish of the never ending wars. [more…]
Politics
The Russian Point of View
Back in the 1980s my enlightened commanding officer sponsored a few of his officers to study under the enlightened Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Professor of Soviet Studies Chris Donnelly. It was an external course which [more…]
America
“Some things never change like weather patterns, famines and wars, whilst others change rapidly through technology and human greed”
Claudio Grass (CG): Taken together, the moves by Russia and China, especially on the monetary front, with their plans of a gold-backed digital currency, appear to pose a direct challenge to the status quo and [more…]
America
“Some things never change like weather patterns, famines and wars, whilst others change rapidly through technology and human greed”
As my friends and clients know very well, but also anyone who has read any of my writings before, I always held that understanding history and geopolitics is one of the most important elements of [more…]
America
Biden inabilities threaten global peace
The idiotic usurper in the White House and his administration’s foreign policy is bringing the world closer to an apocalyptic end. Russia for some time has been threatening and amassing massive military assets at the [more…]